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Mom’s chewing gum can lower her child's tooth decay risk!

     

You catch tooth decay like you catch a cold.

Babies catch tooth cavity causing bacteria from their mothers.

Here is where to order the Decay-Busting Chewing Gum!

The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) recommends that if a mother’s chews a gum with the artificial sweetener, Xylitol, (three times a day) she can reduce her child’s risk of tooth decay by 70%.

 The reason why: Tooth Decay is an infectious disease. 

A baby must “catch” the decay causing germs from Mother before a cavity can start to form.

 Very specific kinds of bacteria cause cavities.   The regular chewing of a Xylitol gum has been shown to reduce the transmission of these “cavity bugs” from mother to child.

 In fact, Mom’s chewing gum activity is better than the fluoride treatments that dentists give or using special mouth washes to prevent decay.  

As a plus—the chewing gum helps reduce Mom’s chance of tooth decay too!

What a pleasant way to help prevent tooth problems before they Start.

Directions:

Use of xylitol gum by mothers (2-3 times per day)

starting 3 months after delivery and until the child was

2 years old, reduced the cavity causing bacteria levels and was significantly better than applying fluoride.

 

At 5 years of age, the xylitol group had 70% reduction in cavities

 

Xylitol currently is available in many forms (eg, gums,

mints, chewable tablets, lozenges, toothpastes, mouthwashes,

cough mixtures, nutraceutical products). Xylitol chewing gum

has been shown to be effective as a preventive agent; however, the

usefulness of other xylitol products that have not been studied

This is research endorsed by the American Academy  of Pediatric Dentistry.

Click here for a source for Xylitol Products

 

Here is a source of one brand of Xylitol chewing gum.

 

 

Click Here to see how the US Army has started to use Xylitol Mints in the Field Rations (MRE's)